Knowledge is when you learn something new every day. Wisdom is when you let something go every day. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is not, indeed, every man a student, and do not all things exist for the student's behoof? — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The proof of a high education is the ability to speak about complex matters as simply as possible. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You send your child to the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys who educate him. You send him to the Latin class, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can quite emancipate himself from his age and country, or produce a model in which the education, the religion, the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
'Tis a good rule in every journey to provide some piece of liberal study to rescue the hours which bad weather, bad… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We are shut up in schools and college recitation rooms for ten or fifteen years, and come out at last with a… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Men do not believe in the power of education. We do not think we can speak to divine sentiments in man, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or the splendor of his speech. Life… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Not out of those, on whom systems of education have exhausted their culture, comes the helpful giant to destroy the old or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I look on trade and every mechanical craft as education also. But let me discriminate what is precious herein. There is in… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If you would learn to write, it is in the street you must learn it. Both for the vehicle and for the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe, for the purposes of art, of study, and benevolence, so that… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The intelligent have a right over the ignorant, namely, the right of instructing them. The right punishment of one out of tune,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I believe that our own experience instructs us that the secret of Education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If the colleges were better, if they ... had the power of imparting valuable thought, creative principles, truths which become powers, thoughts… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Meantime the education of the general mind never stops. The reveries of the true and simple are prophetic. What the tender poeticyouth… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Is it not manifest that our academic institutions should have a wider scope; that they should not be timid and keep the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The great object of Educationshould be commensurate withthe object of life. It should be a moral one; to teach self-trust: to inspire… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A man cannot speak but he judges himself. With his will or against his will he draws his portrait to the eye of his… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A child reminds us that playtime is an essential part of our daily routine. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
No man can be criticised but by a greater than he. Do not, then, read the reviews. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
